Staff Blog: Tom Henderson - Crain's Detroit Businesshttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/section/blog007/tom-henderson
Venture capital, banking, private equity, tech startupsen-usFri, 9 Dec 2016 20:16:07 EDT10Staff Blog: Tom Henderson - Crain's Detroit Business14416http://www.crainsdetroit.com/section/blog007/tom-henderson
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/assets/cd/cdb_logo_rss.gifEntrepreneurial failure: Badge of honor or of shame?http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20161123/BLOG007/161129930/entrepreneurial-failure-badge-of-honor-or-of-shame
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20161123/BLOG007/161129930/entrepreneurial-failure-badge-of-honor-or-of-shameWed, 23 Nov 2016 12:39:37 EDTSad week for an ink-stained wretch as dailies cut to the bone http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20161117/BLOG007/161119810/sad-week-for-an-ink-stained-wretch-as-dailies-cut-to-the-bone
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20161117/BLOG007/161119810/sad-week-for-an-ink-stained-wretch-as-dailies-cut-to-the-boneThu, 17 Nov 2016 19:45:00 EDTParis or Ann Arbor? Entrepreneurial culture wins out http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20161004/BLOG007/161009936/paris-or-ann-arbor-entrepreneurial-culture-wins-out
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20161004/BLOG007/161009936/paris-or-ann-arbor-entrepreneurial-culture-wins-outTue, 4 Oct 2016 14:29:26 EDT
Tom Henderson
- Dawn Verbrigghe, a highly respected marketer of tech companies that do software as a service, was entrenched in New York when she got two job offers the last week of April. She and her husband owned a house in Brooklyn, the hipster center of the known universe, and she was VP of marketing for Keywee, which uses machine learning and something called "natural language processing" to boost traffic to publishers' websites. The company was funded in part by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and the New]]>Manoj Bhargava is $1 billion mystery investor at TiECon Midwesthttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160930/BLOG007/160939991/manoj-bhargava-is-1-billion-mystery-investor-at-tiecon-midwest
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160930/BLOG007/160939991/manoj-bhargava-is-1-billion-mystery-investor-at-tiecon-midwestFri, 30 Sep 2016 13:52:31 EDTArmy veteran gives Merrill Lynch lesson in teamworkhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160925/BLOG007/160929839/army-veteran-gives-merrill-lynch-lesson-in-teamwork
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160925/BLOG007/160929839/army-veteran-gives-merrill-lynch-lesson-in-teamworkSun, 25 Sep 2016 08:00:00 EDT
Tom Henderson
- John Kulhavi learned teamwork in Vietnam, then invented the team concept at Merrill Lynch in Farmington Hills. A member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Central Michigan University — many years later he would serve as chairman of the school's board of trustees — upon graduation in 1965, he joined the Army and became a much-decorated helicopter pilot. By the time his tour was done in 1968, he'd received the Legion of Merit, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Purple Heart and ]]>Old vs. new Detroit: What happens when gentrification rears its ugly head?http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160916/BLOG007/160919791/old-vs-new-detroit-what-happens-when-gentrification-rears-its-ugly
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160916/BLOG007/160919791/old-vs-new-detroit-what-happens-when-gentrification-rears-its-uglyFri, 16 Sep 2016 15:00:00 EDT
Tom Henderson
- Where would you rather live? In a city where gentrification is a problem to discuss? Or a city where gentrification is a laughable hallucination of impossibility? Detroit has been both in my lifetime. Give me gentrification any time. (My wife is eagerly awaiting gentrification to hit East English Village on the east side, where she's owned a house for 40 years, saw housing values plummet during the Great Recession, and has been paying property taxes since then that are based on hallucinatory]]>Emily Gail: Back for Homecoming, still saying nice things about Detroithttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160915/BLOG007/160919873/emily-gail-back-for-homecoming-still-saying-nice-things-about-detroit
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160915/BLOG007/160919873/emily-gail-back-for-homecoming-still-saying-nice-things-about-detroitThu, 15 Sep 2016 17:32:49 EDT
Tom Henderson
- "What are you doing here?" I asked. Which was a really dumb question to ask of a former Detroiter back in town. What made it dumb was it was the opening reception early Wednesday evening of the third annual Detroit Homecoming program. As soon as I asked it, I went, "Doh!" in Homer Simpson fashion. "Of course, you're back for Homecoming." I'd been talking with Jim Hayes, the founder and co-director of the event. We're of a certain age, he the former head of the Detroit office of Sports]]>PayAnywhere shakes up team, eyes futurehttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160731/BLOG007/160739999/payanywhere-shakes-up-team-eyes-future
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160731/BLOG007/160739999/payanywhere-shakes-up-team-eyes-futureSun, 31 Jul 2016 08:00:00 EDT
Tom Henderson
- The voice on the phone was angry. And, of course, anonymous. To paraphrase, the message was: You were dumb enough to fall for it the last time you wrote about PayAnywhere. Maybe now you can tell the real story. PayAnywhere is dying. Everyone has been laid off. Marc Gardner is desperately trying to find a buyer before the plug is pulled. Check it out. Click. I checked it out. First, the backstory. In May 2014, I did a story for Crain's on the David-vs.-Goliath nature of what PayAnywhere LLC was]]>Remembering Gordie Howe: The nicest, meanest hockey player you'd ever knowhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160610/BLOG007/160619974/remembering-gordie-howe-the-nicest-meanest-hockey-player-youd-ever
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160610/BLOG007/160619974/remembering-gordie-howe-the-nicest-meanest-hockey-player-youd-everFri, 10 Jun 2016 15:04:27 EDTAt United Shore, it's not all about the workhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160529/BLOG007/160529840/at-united-shore-its-not-all-about-the-work
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160529/BLOG007/160529840/at-united-shore-its-not-all-about-the-workSun, 29 May 2016 08:00:00 EDTOnly in Detroit: From Detroit Mower Gang to talk of 100 gigabit internet in an hourhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160512/BLOG007/160519931/only-in-detroit-from-detroit-mower-gang-to-talk-of-100-gigabit
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160512/BLOG007/160519931/only-in-detroit-from-detroit-mower-gang-to-talk-of-100-gigabitThu, 12 May 2016 23:48:30 EDTLaura Berman, Tom Walsh and a vampire with a tanhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160416/BLOG007/160419833/laura-berman-tom-walsh-and-a-vampire-with-a-tan
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160416/BLOG007/160419833/laura-berman-tom-walsh-and-a-vampire-with-a-tanSat, 16 Apr 2016 14:13:16 EDTCredit union finds mergers have benefitshttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160410/BLOG007/160419983/credit-union-finds-mergers-have-benefits
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160410/BLOG007/160419983/credit-union-finds-mergers-have-benefitsSun, 10 Apr 2016 08:00:00 EDTUM researcher helps prove that Einstein was righthttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160326/BLOG007/160329899/um-researcher-helps-prove-that-einstein-was-right
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160326/BLOG007/160329899/um-researcher-helps-prove-that-einstein-was-rightSat, 26 Mar 2016 08:00:00 EDTBirdhouse raises second round of $250,000http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160219/BLOG007/160219798/birdhouse-raises-second-round-of-250000
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160219/BLOG007/160219798/birdhouse-raises-second-round-of-250000Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:47:54 EDT
Tom Henderson
- Birdhouse LLC, a tech startup that wants to make money and do a ton of social good, has closed on its second funding round of $250,000, which will allow it to create more smartphone apps and hire a small sales and marketing staff. Birdhouse got its first funding round of $250,000 in 2014 to fund its first app, available both for Android and iPhone, which was aimed at helping parents of kids with autism. That round included $25,000 from Grand Rapids-based Start Garden, a $15 million early-stage]]>Musings on why gravitational waves are so mind-bogglinghttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160216/BLOG007/160219884/musings-on-why-gravitational-waves-are-so-mind-boggling
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160216/BLOG007/160219884/musings-on-why-gravitational-waves-are-so-mind-bogglingTue, 16 Feb 2016 14:00:00 EDT
Tom Henderson
- Here are some ponderings on gravitational waves and GPS navigation, courtesy of the New York Times’ Review section from Sunday.On Thursday, I wrote about the much ballyhooed — and rightly so — announcement that scientists had confirmed the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time that had resulted from the cataclysmic collision of two black holes more than a billion light years away, which means more than a billion years ago. The discovery was the]]>Detroit CEO accepted into Silicon Valley accelerator for gamershttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160212/BLOG007/160219937/detroit-ceo-accepted-into-silicon-valley-accelerator-for-gamers
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160212/BLOG007/160219937/detroit-ceo-accepted-into-silicon-valley-accelerator-for-gamersFri, 12 Feb 2016 12:00:00 EDT
Tom Henderson
- Ida Byrd-Hill is heading to Silicon Valley. She recently got the good news she has been accepted into the Core Labs Game Accelerator, a six-month program that aims to help game developers understand the business side of gaming and help them get to market. She is CEO of Detroit-based Weyn LLC and creator of My Jewel Empire, an app-based game that teaches participants how to create financial health that she wants to market to human resource departments, retirement-plan sponsors, health insurers]]>Opinion: Buck stops with Snyder, but here's whom to really blame in Flint water crisishttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160124/BLOG007/160129941/opinion-buck-stops-with-snyder-but-heres-whom-to-really-blame-in
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160124/BLOG007/160129941/opinion-buck-stops-with-snyder-but-heres-whom-to-really-blame-inSun, 24 Jan 2016 08:00:00 EDTBroe Group manager likes Ann Arbor flowhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160124/BLOG007/301249996/broe-group-manager-likes-ann-arbor-flow
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160124/BLOG007/301249996/broe-group-manager-likes-ann-arbor-flowSun, 24 Jan 2016 08:00:00 EDT
Tom Henderson
- The Broe Group of Denver has more than 1,000 employees in North America in real estate management, logistics and transportation. It also funds Three Leaf Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on tech-based health care companies. In June, it opened an office in Ann Arbor. Crain's reporter Tom Henderson talked to Sean Kearney, who runs the local office. What's your background? I got my undergrad in finance from Miami of Ohio and traded on the hedge desk in Cleveland for four years for Aleris]]>Denny Handley: Sweetheart of a friend, tenacious fraud investigator, dies doing what he lovedhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160105/BLOG007/160109929/denny-handley-sweetheart-of-a-friend-tenacious-fraud-investigator
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160105/BLOG007/160109929/denny-handley-sweetheart-of-a-friend-tenacious-fraud-investigatorTue, 5 Jan 2016 14:30:00 EDT
Tom Henderson
- Dennis Handley was the last guy in the world you’d have thought was a fraud investigator, if you only knew him as a fellow runner with the downtown runners and walkers, a group that has been meeting at a difference Detroit-area bar or restaurant every Tuesday night for the last 32-33 years. The longtime Ferndale resident was quick to laugh, a teller of corny jokes, a gentle soul who was always eager to greet new faces and put them at ease. A marathon runner who turned one addiction,]]>It's worse than just rude to always be slouched over your smartphonehttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160101/BLOG007/151239991/its-worse-than-just-rude-to-always-be-slouched-over-your-smartphone
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160101/BLOG007/151239991/its-worse-than-just-rude-to-always-be-slouched-over-your-smartphoneFri, 1 Jan 2016 05:30:00 EDTHappiness is having expanded to downtown Detroit, says Steve Baronehttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151223/BLOG007/151229916/happiness-is-having-expanded-to-downtown-detroit-says-steve-barone
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151223/BLOG007/151229916/happiness-is-having-expanded-to-downtown-detroit-says-steve-baroneWed, 23 Dec 2015 12:12:34 EDT
Tom Henderson
- Steve Barone is happy as a clam these days, glad he chose downtown Detroit to expand to instead of Southfield. Happy to be joining the Detroit Athletic Club. Thrilled as he takes a visitor on a tour of his new space at 1260 Library St., posing next to a table saw on the second floor for a photo of rehab work in progress. Barone is founder of Ferndale-based Creative Breakthroughs Inc., which provides network security services to corporations, his hackers usually and quickly showing company CEOs]]>How tax law got changed to lure large data center to Michiganhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151216/BLOG007/151219872/how-tax-law-got-changed-to-lure-large-data-center-to-michigan
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151216/BLOG007/151219872/how-tax-law-got-changed-to-lure-large-data-center-to-michiganWed, 16 Dec 2015 03:45:00 EDT
Tom Henderson
- It is fitting that a nonprofit in Grand Rapids called the The Right Place Inc. helped broker a deal to get Switch, a Las Vegas-based company that runs large data centers, to expand its operations to Michigan. Switch was already looking to expand its geographic footprint, and Michigan was in most respects the right place. Switch wanted to be significantly east of Nevada to be closer to some of its large customers. But it didn’t want to be so far east as to have to worry about the]]>First 'unconference' at TechTown a roaring successhttp://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151211/BLOG007/151219966/first-unconference-at-techtown-a-roaring-success
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151211/BLOG007/151219966/first-unconference-at-techtown-a-roaring-successFri, 11 Dec 2015 14:00:00 EDT